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This is a detailed and colourful PDF of 100 slides to accompany and help your teaching of the Desert Island Discs - the new radio text replacing The Archers from Summer 2027 onwards in the EDUQAS spec.

It should allow you to teach all of the content relating to Industries and Audiences.

The slides cover:

• The content, format, and history of the show and its presenter(s)
• A detailed look at Radio 4 and its range of output
• A summary of how the BBC uses technology to market the show
• A contextual study of the BBC as the nation’s PSB - including a look at funding, regulation and the licence fee
• A media debate summary on BBC’s radio’s market share
• A brief history of radio technology - from the valve-based wireless to DAB+ and podcasts
• A look at some wider contextual information to help students understand radio - something they often struggle with

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The slides are designed to go over the essential infomation and give you the opportunity to add notes and activities as you go along. For example - you might want students to do their own interviews with relatives or family friends to create their own Desert Island Discs podcasts - or you may set them a homework of listenting to some episodes in their own time.

This resource was prepared in June 2025 - at this point EDUQAS hadn’t yet released their usual factsheet / knowledge organiser on Desert Island Discs.

I’ve tried to cover the likely Industry and Audience issues that were explored in the case study of The Archers (the previous radio text) as these will probably pop up again with Desert Island Discs.

It may be that EDUQAS want to steer our study of Desert Island Discs in slightly different direction - we’ll find out once the new support materials are published and I will add some new slides to cover any missing points .

Once this has been released - I will update the slides to include anything that I’ve missed out -please let me know and I’ll send you the update once it’s ready.

The slides took a long time to make and I’ve tried to help my fellow media teachers by pricing them in the ‘two-coffees’ price bracket.

You’re welcome to use these in your lessons - but please can I ask you to restrict sharing the slides online - thank you.